Books like Foster
12 books with a reading profile close to Foster by Claire Keegan. Inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; an easy read.
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1
Please Look After Mom
by Kyung-Sook Shin, Chi-Young Kim
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Sixty-nine-year-old Park So-nyo disappears in a crowded Seoul subway station after losing her husband’s hand in the rush.
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2
Small Things Like These
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
In 1985, during the weeks preceding Christmas in a small Irish town, coal merchant Bill Furlong balances the demands of his business and his responsibility to his wife and daughters.
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3
Detransition, Baby
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
The story centers on Reese, a trans woman in New York whose life is stalled by self-destruction and a lack of traditional domestic paths.
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4
The Magician's Assistant
by Ann Patchett
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Sabine, a magician's assistant, has spent twenty years working with Parsifal, a gay magician, and living with him in Los Angeles.
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5
The Berry Pickers
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
In 1962, a four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl named Ruthie vanishes from a blueberry field in Maine while her family works the harvest.
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6
Our Souls at Night
by Kent Haruf
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
In the small town of Holt, Colorado, Addie Moore, a widow in her seventies, visits her neighbor Louis Waters with a straightforward proposal.
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7
The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Set in San Francisco, the narrative follows four Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters who gather as the Joy Luck Club.
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8
Red at the Bone
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
The narrative begins at a 2001 debutante ball in a Brooklyn brownstone, celebrating the sixteenth birthday of Melody.
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9
Commonwealth
by Ann Patchett
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
The story begins at a 1960s christening party in Southern California, where a chance kiss between Bert Cousins and Beverly Keating leads to the dissolution of two marriages.
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10
American Born Chinese
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Gene Luen Yang weaves together three distinct narrative threads to examine the internal conflicts of cultural assimilation.
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Long Way Down
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Fifteen-year-old Will Holloman sits in an elevator with a gun tucked into his waistband, intending to kill the man who shot his brother, Shawn.
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12
Was man von hier aus sehen kann
by Mariana Leky
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Luise, a ten-year-old girl in a small village in the German Westerwald, learns that whenever her grandmother Selma dreams of an okapi, someone in the village will die within twenty-four hours.
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